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" In schools, and in life, we often let rules or obsta­cles get in our way of chang­ing our behav­iors or reach­ing a goal. In schools those obsta­cles may be 45-minute peri­ods, stan­dard­ized test­ing, the bud­get, facil­i­ties, or a host of other things. Those chal­lenges, how­ever real they are, often become excuses to not make major changes. I say excuses because in most cases there are exam­ples of schools that have over­come those obsta­cles to improve their learn­ing envi­ron­ment for stu­dents. "

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"Watch the Intro to Edmodo recording and follow the instructions for joining the Edmodo New User group."

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"Everybody has big ideas about how to fix education in the United States, but it seems like the reform conversation eventually comes back to one thing: How can we make schools better so we can churn out a more highly educated workforce that will ensure our global economic dominance continues? No one wants the American economy to fail, but what if the point of school isn’t cranking out degreed workers that will help us beat China? What if the key to transforming education relies on upending our individualistic, market-driven ideas about the purpose of school?"

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"Guide to social media success" created for business, but applicable to schools.

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"By blocking social media schools are also blocking the opportunity:

1) to teach students about the inventive and powerful ways communities around the world are using social media

2) for students and teachers to experience the educational potential of social media together

3) for students to distribute their work with the larger world

4) for students to reimagine their creative and civic identities in the age of networked media"

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Guidelines from CoSN for updating school AUPs.

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This is an interesting post in response to the YouTube for Schools launch. It is not an indictment of Google for creating the resource, but rather school leadership for "Marlin-like" fear of YouTube.

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"We have schools and classrooms that are still doing what they’ve always done, but with some additional infrequent and marginal uses of new learning tools. We have educators who don’t really know how to use the tools very well and who also have little access to those tools, reliable IT support, and/or regular integration assistance. For some reason we expect changes in certain learning outcomes to occur anyway, despite these environmental factors and despite the fact that those outcomes may not be what the schools were striving for in the first place. And, if we don’t see those outcomes, we’re going to claim it’s the fault of the technologies themselves rather than human and system factors and then we’re going to claim that traditional analog learning environments are just fine in a digital, global world."

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Quest to Learn is a school for digital kids. It is a community where students learn to see the world as composed of many different kinds of systems. It is a place to play, invent, grow, and explore.

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This Web site, which is part of the larger Data First project, started out several years ago as a collection of data resources called “Good Measures for Good Schools.” That collection, which is now the Data Center, was designed to guide people through the questions they should be asking about their schools, and point to the data sources that offer answers.

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"The Scaling Framework – an interactive tool that helps analyse how you move an innovation from being something done by 1 or 2 people, to making it widespread."

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